In 1989 I got my first guitar though I had been pickin’ around on my dad’s guitar for a while before that. Those classic 80’s “hair bands” are what got me started. Through the early years it was all about Hard Rock and Metal. I never set out to be a “bluesman”, it just seems to work out that way. Personally, I’d rather sound like Waylon Jennings but that can be tough.
When I was sixteen I was in a car accident and suffered a severe vocal chord injury. The paramedics said my throat looked...